We all recognize that plants evolved to take water and nutrition in through their roots, and that the only inputs our marijuana plants evolved to take in through leaves are light and C02.

So why would Craig Gribble tell us otherwise?

When I asked hydroponics store owners, they said it’s because Craig Gribble runs a hydroponics company called Dutch Master–a company that makes hydroponics foliar spray products such as Liquid Light and Saturator.

I called Dutch Master to ask how their products worked to make bigger, sweeter, more resinous buds, but the Dutch Master people refused to talk about cannabis growing.

Old Information Versus Modern Marijuana Research

While I was studying the Dutch Master website and plant science studies trying to figure out if Dutch Master is legit, I noticed the opening sentences of Gribble’s Maximum Yield article are word for word the exact same as the opening paragraphs of an advertising blurb on the Dutch Master website.

What’s more, Gribble’s article and website mention research of “Dr. H.B. Tukey” to assert that foliar feeding is amazingly effective-.

Too bad Gribble fails to mention that Tukey’s research was conducted more than half a century ago on non-marijuana crops, and has been superseded by marijuana-specific research.

Gribble wants us to believe hydroponics marijuana roots do not uptake carbohydrates, amino acids and other non-nutrient substances.

But hey, foliar spraying ​is ​useful in certain circumstances. Notice I use the term “foliar spraying” rather than “foliar feeding,” because most foliar benefits are protective rather than nutritional.

For example, I foliar spray beneficial microbes and potassium silicate on my early-phase crops, because this helps defeat molds, mildews, and pests such as spider mites.

If my crops are in trouble and I can’t wait for the root zone to do its job, I’ll try foliar spraying and usually I can get least get some nutrition into the plants that way.

Here’s a basic but crucial foliar spraying tip: if you want hydroponics nutrients foliar spraying to be at all effective, use an organic or synthetic surfactant that helps leaves absorb what you’re spraying.

Realize that some portion of what you spray on your marijuana crops is likely to be on them as residue when you harvest, especially if you spray during late bloom phase.

Marijuana That Tastes Like Cannabis Candy

So it’s easy to see Gribble is mistaken about marijuana roots, carbohydrates, and foliar feeding, but what’s the real story about how to use carb products to amp up the quality and quantity of your marijuana harvests?

Old school growers still use molasses and other crude materials, but those materials can cause root zone problems, and it’s unclear if they make your buds sweeter, bigger, or higher in THC.

It’s easier to use a hydroponics formula like Bud Candy–a marijuana-engineered carbo booster that provides complex carbohydrates and proprietary materials that infuse into your plants via roots to boost the scent, taste, size and potency of your buds.

Hydroponics carbo boosters such as Bud Candy provide blooming hydroponics marijuana plants extra energy at a time when they’re running out of energy due to intense metabolic demands.

Marijuana Grow Guru Jorge Cervantes Agrees

Marijuana grow guru Jorge Cervantes and other knowledgeable cannabis cultivation experts publicly state that marijuana plants’ roots are the intake engine for nutritional elements, carbohydrates, and all other substances necessary for cannabis growth and yield.

I have to side with all the marijuana experts who disagree with Gribble.

In fact, Dutch Master’s Gribble disses your marijuana’s roots and misleads you about how to feed your marijuana plants.

This controversy exposes a crucial difference between Big Buds and Maximum Yield, and also illustrates how hypocritical businesspeople who profit from marijuana growers refuse to join the marijuana community or provide accurate information about hydroponics products and marijuana.

In ​Maximum Yield magazine and at its indoor gardening expo events, nobody is allowed to mention marijuana.

This makes it impossible to have a transparent marijuana cultivation discussion so you know what products are good to use for your cannabis crops.

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